This document is a delineation of student enrollments for the fall semester 1972 from the 42 accredited Kentucky colleges and universities. The enrollments are aggregated by institution, state, foreign country, and Kentucky resident students by county of origin. A few general findings related to the overall enrollment characteristics of the…

Movement in Australia's tertiary sector--between and within higher education and vocational education and training--is a key feature of Australia's post-compulsory education system. This report investigates the extent and nature of student traffic between the two sectors, nationally and in South Australia from 1997 to 2002. Movement from…

A major problem in measuring student success in postsecondary education is the difficulty in tracking students' progress as they transfer from one institution to another. National studies have shown that more than half of students attend more than one institution in their pursuit of a bachelor's degree. This study examined existing state-level…

Dropout rates are particularly problematic measures for Hispanic youth. One-third of Hispanic adolescents are foreign-born. Their sending countries tend to have much lower rates of secondary school completion than does the United States. This digest presents recent tabulations on the number of Latino high school dropouts, noting pitfalls in…

Even as individual colleges and universities work to make their own general education programs more coherent, fewer and fewer students proceed through those programs according to plan. Students frequently say that their general education programs add up to an assortment of fragments to be assembled and then left behind. How should the educational…

The Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) Neighborhood Schools Initiative (NSI) appears to be making incremental progress towards its twin goals of increasing neighborhood capacity and reducing busing, although results are mixed in this 2002-2003 report, the third year of NSI implementation. Reported findings include: (1) Thirty-nine percent of all…

British Columbia's post-secondary Transfer System consists of all BC public institutions, Yukon College and those private institutions which have been approved to participate through a provincial quality assessment process. Within the Transfer System, smooth student mobility between institutions is supported by all partners. Articulation…

This report presents the following data: (1) Summary of the Number of Courses and the Number of Students served in Nebraska by Out-of-State Institutions: 2000-2005; (2) Number of Students Admitted into Out-of-State Programs for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005; (3) Enrollment in Courses Offered in Nebraska by Out-of-State Institutions: Fall 2003-Spring…

The statistics, legal situation, and European agency cooperation in relation to student mobility in Europe involve several political questions in relation to a unified system of higher education. (KM)

Urges states to make certain that their residency regulations are comprehensive, flexible, reasonable, and fairly administered. (MK)

School records of 643 ninth-grade students were examined. Classroom adjustment was measured by the Classroom Behavior Inventory. Results indicated that mobility was negatively related to math achievement and adjustment. Results are discussed in relation to the peer society and the use of these data for schools. (Author/RL)

Asserts that, because of frequent interruptions and changes in their learning environments, highly transient children may display symptoms similar to those of specific learning disabilities. Urges educators to distinguish between these two problems in diagnosis and referral. (Condensed from "The Arizona Administrator," May 1981, p7.) (Editor/SJL)

Describes some differences in representations of mathematical concepts and procedures of recent immigrants. Discusses considerations for success of recent immigrants. (YDS)

The European Common Market is striving toward harmonization of its member countries in many aspects of their laws. Explains some of the recent developments in the European Common Market law and practice affecting education, particularly those that have taken place in Britain. (MLF)

Explores how many colleges have changed their enrollment strategies to focus more on local and regional students in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks and recession. (EV)